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For a good bit of the war I was working in Cambridge and living at home with my parents. Somewhere near the bottom of our garden my father had a builder build us a beautiful air raid shelter [Holbrook Road].
We went down some steps into a little cosy room where we had cushions and probably a carpet, and pictures on the wall.
Air raid warnings at night were frequent because the Germans throbbed over us on their way presumably to the Midlands. The seldom did any harm to Cambridge. But it could be several hours before there was an All Clear, and so far as I remember, we never heard the Germans come back again.
My father was an air raid warden and I was a fire watcher – my mother in the W.V.S. worked a lot with evacuees. As a fire warden I never did anything except watch from a window one night when we got some incendiaries in our road. People had regular fire warning duties at their place of work.
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